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TIL that crows are one of the smartest non-primate animals on earth, with the intelligence of a 7-year-old human. They use and manipulate tools, they have long-term memory including facial recognition, and they understand analogy.

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kJ6JW TIL that between 2016 and 2020 doctors in the USA surgically mutilated 48,000 people for profit